I don't get my flash movie to read XML data

[Tigervlc]

No, I've just tried using my browser with the SWF embedded, and doesn't work either. It's not anything about the Flash environment then, because it happens in HTML as well.

[Tigervlc]

problem definitely solved! or so I believe.

The "mystery" was here:

news = new XML();
news.ignoreWhite = true;

news.onLoad = function(success) {
    if (success) {
        trace("NEWS: " + news);
        myText.text = "NEWS: " + news.firstChild; 
    } else trace("Couldn't load XML data");
    // Actions to place news...
};

// Although news.php is in the same folder as the flash movie, I have to call it using the http protocol so as to force news.php to be interpreted by PHP engine.
news.load("http://localhost/...mypath.../news.php"); 

In the last line, I was calling directly news.php without forcing it to be interpreted by PHP. By adding http://localhost/...mypath.../ to the path of function XML.load(), I get, AT LAST hehe, what I intended to do.

[renderhjs]

well that´s half of the solution,- of course one would need to fix that if it´s going to be uploaded- but thx for that info.
I guess I myself will further on write a method that switches from local to online with a prefix on all loaded php thingies.